sandbed

English

Etymology

From sand +‎ bed.

Noun

sandbed (plural sandbeds)

  1. A thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially.
    • 2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 87:
      There are also less commonly observed mollusks, such as pelagic heteropods, thecostomes, pteropods, and gymnosomes that live in the open sea, worm like solenogasters that live on reefs, and scaphopods that build tusk-like shells and live in sandbeds.
  2. The bed into which the iron from a blast furnace is run.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.